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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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