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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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