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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

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

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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