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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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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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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

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