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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

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

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

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