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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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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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