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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

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