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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different for each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

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