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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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