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- There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
- In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without…
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men…
- Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
- You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking…
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing…
- Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at…
- Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,…
- Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.…
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- 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…
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . .…
- I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook…
- Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly…
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.
- Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world…
- There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner…
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be…
- I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle