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- France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression…
- This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for…
- In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.
- ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put…
- It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from…
- Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ...
- You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
- 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…
- The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
- Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
- Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from…
- Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me…
- There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
- Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
- 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…
- The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
- The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of…
- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which…
- Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
- That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
- More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
- The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time…
- The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of…
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
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