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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

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Bring the army of the faithful through.

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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

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There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

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The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

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