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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

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