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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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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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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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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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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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