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 The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.  The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Grass grows at last above all graves. Some call it Evolution, And others call it God. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary. A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. - Cicero I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there's a reason. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all. He disposes Doom who hath suffered him. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David." In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom. 
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