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- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits…
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest…
- 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…
- 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…
- Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
- Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
- All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.…
- All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had…
- At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to…
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had…
- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage…
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too…
- Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry…
- While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
- So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far…
- What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of…
- What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love"…
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