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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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