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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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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 gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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