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I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding…
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because…
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,…
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the…
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given…
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which…
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and…
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it…

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I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg
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