I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
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I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
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The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cakeThis is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach
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We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.
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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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… Predictions of carcinogenicity from laboratory animals are without meaning for there is no evidence that the studies were conducted in a way that took into consideration the pharmacodynamics in the species investigated, or with any appreciation of end organ sensitivity (with respect to contraceptive steroids).
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
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A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
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His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.
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