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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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Humor is man's greatest blessing.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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