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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

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