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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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