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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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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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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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