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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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