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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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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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