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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

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

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