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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

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I am only human, although I regret it.

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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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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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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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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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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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