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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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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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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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