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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them.... There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning;... she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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... when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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Mark Twain

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Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910 (aged 74)
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