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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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I am not an American. I am the American.

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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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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

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