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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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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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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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