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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

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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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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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