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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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