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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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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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