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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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