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- Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is…
- If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every…
- The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
- One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls,…
- For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one…
- If one is honest there is no need to remember.
- The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves…
- He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
- Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?
- 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…
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our…
- To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
- I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so…
- In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in…
- 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…
- Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.…
- I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me…
- It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering…
- The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
- Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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