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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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A German joke is no laughing matter.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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