Poems List

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight.
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