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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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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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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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