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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Every thought is an exception to the general rule that people do not think.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Today gives us a chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
A three year old is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
To live in fear of death is many times to die.
The two great rules of life: 1) Never tell everything at once.
Common sense is judgment without reflection which is shared by an entire class, a people, a nation, or the whole human race.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
By the time a man gets to be Presidential material he's been bought ten times over.
We believe that the only security against the corruption of the few and the degradation of the many, is to give the great body of the people their political and social rights.
Hunger persuades to evil.
They can because they think they can.
The road to hell is easy.
Have the courage to be wise.
He who lives in fear will never, in my judgment, be a free man.
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
It is characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it up or flee from it.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions.
To worship God and to leave every other man free to worship Him in his own way; to love one's neighbor, enlightening them if one can and pitying those who remain in error; to dismiss as immaterial all questions that would have given us no trouble if no importance had been attached to them--this is my religion, it is worth all your systems and symbols.
Without philosophy we should be little above animals.
Let the punishment of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing, and a man condemned to public works will serve the country, and is a living lesson.
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and to give it to the other.
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
Whoever serves his country well has no need for ancestors.
Man is free the moment he wants to be.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
The best is the enemy of the good.
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