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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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