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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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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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Never mistake motion for progress.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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If one is honest there is no need to remember.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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