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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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