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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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Faith is believing things you know aint true

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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