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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

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