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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

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The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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