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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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