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They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

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Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all ...more

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There spoke the race!" he said; "always ready to claim what it hasn't got, and mistake its ounce of brass filings for a ton of gold-dust. You have a m...more

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Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ...more

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Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exi...more

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I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't ...more

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.