When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
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Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
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We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
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