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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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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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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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