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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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If one is honest there is no need to remember.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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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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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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