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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

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