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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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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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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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