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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

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