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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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