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I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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