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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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