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"I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"Whatever Spiteful fools may Say — Each jealous, ranting yelper — No woman ever played the whore Unless She had a man to help her."

"I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

"I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance — what I have always said in theory — Wait God's will."

"It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control."

"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

"When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?"

"She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat."

"Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him."

"A longer paraphrase of this quotation, with modern embellishments, is often attributed to Laozi: see "Misattributed" below."

"I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders."

"A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother."

"Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are."

"Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."

"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."

"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."

"I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever."

"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"The funniest things are the forbidden."

"This poor little one-horse town."

"It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can satisfy your desire."

"So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging."

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror."

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."

"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal."

"The Portrait of Mr. W. H."

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

"Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle — Why not I with thine?"

"It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself."

"Parmenides: It is impossible to conceive of many without one."

"No more sailing from harbour to harbour with this my weather-beaten boat. The days are long passed when my sport was to be tossed on waves."

"I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders."

"To be angry with a man is to hate him; to hate him is to wish him harm; but to wish him well, even if he has done you harm, is the mark of a great mind."

"Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road."

"Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection."

"C'est un poids bien pesant qu'un nom trop tôt fameux."

"L'amour est de toutes les passions la plus forte, parce qu'elle attaque à la fois la tête, le cœur et le corps."

"L'homme doit être content, dit-on; mais de quoi?"

"La vertu s'avilit à se justifier."

"Le public est une bête féroce: il faut l'enchaîner ou la fuir."

"Man ought to be content, it is said; but with what?"

"On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité."

"On parle toujours mal quand on n'a rien à dire."

"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."

"Quite a heavy weight, a name too quickly famous."

"The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it."

"Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth."

"I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait."