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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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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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