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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

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Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

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