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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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