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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Deduction : Introductory Symbolic Logic (2002)
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
American Claimant (1892)
To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
What Is Man? (1906)
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The Gorky Incident (1906)
A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1899)
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Essay on William Dean Howells (1906)
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
The Innocents Abroad (1869)
In the cotton States, after the war, the simple and ignorant w:NegroesNegroes made the crops for the white planter on shares.
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.