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God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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Good digestion waits an appetite, and health an both.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
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He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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