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Quote by Walt Whitman
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. – Walt Whitman

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I dont believe I deserved my friends. – Walt Whitman

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Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. – H.L. Mencken

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The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. – Bern Williams

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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window — that is at once interesting. – Billy Wilder

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The least unkindness from a friend is of greater smart than the hardest usage from an enemy. – Greek proverb

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There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. Theyre the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. – Howard Dean

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, thats Memoirs. – Will Rogers

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