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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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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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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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A German joke is no laughing matter.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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