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- It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
- The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and…
- I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the…
- War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the…
- If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
- The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
- The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.
- I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed…
- He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended…
- Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- [Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys…
- In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like…
- I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.
- No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
- I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree…
- In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
- There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away…
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you…
- I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I…
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