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- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
- A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way:…
- Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother…
- I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
- It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them…
- 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…
- ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
- 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…
- The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples…
- You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
- History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head…
- I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous…
- Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other…
- Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can…
- Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty…
- One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
- It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault…
- A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect…
- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,…
- One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair…
- If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
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