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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

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He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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