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- Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me…
- The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
- Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
- I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so…
- That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that…
- More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way…
- Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
- I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- 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…
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
- If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
- Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with…
- I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
- I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and…
- Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
- There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to…
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