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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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