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A full-dressed ecclesiastic...

A full-dressed ecclesiastic...

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a...

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Comedy naturally wears...

Comedy naturally wears...

Comedy naturally wears itself out --destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully...

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Women have changed...

Women have changed...

Women have changed in their relationship to men, but men stand pat just where Adam did when it comes to dealing with...

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One good turn...

One good turn...

One good turn deserves another.

Source: Satyricon, sec. 45.
-- Petronius...

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In imagination, thereÆs...

In imagination, thereÆs...

In imagination, thereÆs no limitation.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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The world is...

The world is...

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

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One can only...

One can only...

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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When a man...

When a man...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell...

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Genius is a...

Genius is a...

Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.

Source: The...

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Nothing, it appears...

Nothing, it appears...

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be...

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How could they...

How could they...

How could they tell?

Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...

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A pessimist is...

A pessimist is...

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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An optimist stays...

An optimist stays...

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year...

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No other city...

No other city...

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away...

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Freedom of the...

Freedom of the...

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Source: In The Paper:...

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We are all...

We are all...

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its...

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We all have...

We all have...

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once...

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The great business...

The great business...

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Source:...

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A country governed...

A country governed...

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J....

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A Scotchman must...

A Scotchman must...

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

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