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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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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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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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