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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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Hunger is the handmaid of genius

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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