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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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