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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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