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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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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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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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