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My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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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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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

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