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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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Humor is man's greatest blessing.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

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