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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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