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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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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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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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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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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

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Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

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