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• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth.
  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...
• A single fact can ruin a good argument everytime!
• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
  In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic....
• Brockman: ... means death for us all. And now, "Kent's People!
  Tonight's inspiring story is about Frank Grimes, a thirty- five-year-old Springfieldite who has earned everything the hard way, but never let adversity get him down....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• I Think I May Have Eaten There Myself Department: A man left a restaurant with a sandwich for which he had not paid, at high noon.
  He was quickly apprehended by the police and had the evidence in hand at the time....
• Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French force
  my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H....
• The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkne
  and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all....