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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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

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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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