We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.