If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.Henry Brooks Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
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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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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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