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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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