But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start.
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose there is no such war in the history of the race.Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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