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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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Travel is lethal to prejudice.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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