“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.