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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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