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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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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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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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I've never let my school interfere with my education.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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