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Geological time is not money.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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