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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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