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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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The problem with education is school.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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