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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Dance like nobody's looking.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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