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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

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