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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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