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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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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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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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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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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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