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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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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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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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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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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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