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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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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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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

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