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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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