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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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