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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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We are all ignorant; just about different things.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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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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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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