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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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