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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

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There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

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A poem is no place for an idea.

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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The secret to life is that there is no secret.

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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

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