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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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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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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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