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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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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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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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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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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

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Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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