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To have been...

To have been...

To have been where we were, to have paid the price we have paid, to have survived, and to have shaken up the world the...

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Experience, which destroys...

Experience, which destroys...

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Source: In...

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Wisdom consists in...

Wisdom consists in...

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal...

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Boredom is just...

Boredom is just...

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one...

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He who despises...

He who despises...

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: Death Kit,...

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There are two...

There are two...

There are two kinds of men -- dead and deadly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Woman! The peg...

Woman! The peg...

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his...

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Every man sees...

Every man sees...

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of...

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Moral certainty is...

Moral certainty is...

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows...

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To be in...

To be in...

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Source: In

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Life is not...

Life is not...

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Source:...

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It is hard...

It is hard...

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Source: In

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We must respect...

We must respect...

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that...

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He is no...

He is no...

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Source: In

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A short letter...

A short letter...

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a...

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Every man who...

Every man who...

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I...

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Every other author...

Every other author...

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative...

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I am always...

I am always...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

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I would not...

I would not...

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the...

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No amount of...

No amount of...

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate...

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