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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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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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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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