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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

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