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Warm summer sun, shine kindly ...

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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The report of my death was an ...

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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Medicine has made all its prog...

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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Fortune knocks at every man's ...

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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Temper is what gets most of us...

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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There are German songs which c...

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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O Lord our God, help us to tea...

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;

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Damn the subjunctive. It bring...

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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The partitions of the houses w...

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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Human beings seem to be a poor...

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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I have no race prejudices, and...

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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Doesn't make any difference wh...

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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It is governed by minorities, ...

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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To eat is human, to digest, di...

To eat is human, to digest, divine

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It is often the case that a ma...

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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I wish to become rich, so that...

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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Whatever you say, say it with ...

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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Weather is a literary specialt...

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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It was enough to make a body a...

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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God's noblest work. Man who fo...

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

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