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- 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…
- Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government…
- 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…
- I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given…
- The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and…
- A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
- Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
- Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
- Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
- There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have…
- Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.
- In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be…
- The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it…
- I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.
- The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
- Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
- Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
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