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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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