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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (2014) -
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
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