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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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