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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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