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- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing…
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
- If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
- A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
- The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
- Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad…
- In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and…
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any…
- No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
- 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…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- 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…
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner…
- Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but…
- ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put…
- 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…
- I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
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