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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

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A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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