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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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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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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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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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