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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.

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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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