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" The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. "

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" If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. "

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" To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. "

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" And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. "

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" Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. "

" Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. "

" The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. "

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" And your very flesh shall be a great poem. "

" 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. "

" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "

" I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. "

" I accept reality and dare not question it. "

" Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. "

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" Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. "

" I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. "