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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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