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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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

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