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Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

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We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

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Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 1st, 1837

Died: May 11th, 1920

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