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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

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It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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