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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

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The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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