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Envy is the central fact of American life.

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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature

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