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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Know Love More People You
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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Dealt Fortune Generosity Known Many Much Poverty Rather Struggle Well

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