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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1894

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