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

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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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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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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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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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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

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