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The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

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Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

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