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"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

"Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."

"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."

"There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked."

"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
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