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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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