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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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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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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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