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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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We can't reach old age by another man's road.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

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Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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