The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.Mark Twain
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
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. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .
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The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Mark Twain
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