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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

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Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

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