A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
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If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.Henry Brooks Adams
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
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It love is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
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You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout.
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
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