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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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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 radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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