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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

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Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

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I have a rendezvous with life.

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Your love to me was like an unread book.

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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

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We forge the chains we wear in life.

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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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