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- in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
- High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
- The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
- when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort…
- One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
- It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs…
- 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;…
- Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
- If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me…
- 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…
- We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss…
- We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
- I am only human, although I regret it.
- Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing…
- Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school…
- Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made…
- We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding…
- It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
- There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press…
- The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and…
- The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its…
- Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
- To be busy is man's only happiness.
- Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
- Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
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