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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
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“Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”
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“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
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separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
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“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
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“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
― A Little Book In C Major
― A Little Book In C Major
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