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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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