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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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