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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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