Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance
That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze
The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
The average man don't like trouble and danger.
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief.
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
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