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"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
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"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"
"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad."
"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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