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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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