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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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