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Found in the topic Good.
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| "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he
made school boards." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "Always do right ? this will gratify some people and astonish the
rest." | |
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Found in the topic Astonish.
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| "Denial ain"t just a river in Egypt." | |
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Found in the topic Denial.
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| "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight,
what counts is the size of the fight in the dog." | |
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Found in the topic Dog.
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| "Maybe it"s not as bad as it sounds." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who can"t read them." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Golf is a good walk spoiled." | |
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Found in the topic Golf.
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| "God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School
Board." | |
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Found in the topic Idiots.
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| "I don"t give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one
way." | |
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Found in the topic Word.
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| "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear ? not absence of
fear." | |
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Found in the topic Courage.
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| "Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities,
War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth
in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal
that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of
his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no
quarrel... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off
his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his
mouth." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is
no humour in heaven." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked
like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." | |
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Found in the topic Smile.
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| "In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate
circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer." | |
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Found in the topic Profanity.
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| "I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being
instructive." | |
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Found in the topic Speak.
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| "Hain"t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain"t that a
big enough majority in any town?" | |
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Found in the topic Majority.
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| "We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place
with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change
and happy in it." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved." | |
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Found in the topic Funerals.
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