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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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