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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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