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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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