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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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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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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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