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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

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

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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