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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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James MadisonFederalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can ta...

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Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...

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She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, th...

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I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, slee...

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The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense,...

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You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git ...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up...

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Happiness is important. Fun is everything.

None of them knew the color of the sky.

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe,...

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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its ...

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I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.