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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Excited General Great Men Nation Noblest Most Number Protest Really
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Curiosity Devil Dress God Grecian Modern Neither Retain Vestment Wear
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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