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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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