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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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