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It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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