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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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