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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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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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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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