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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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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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We are all ignorant; just about different things.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

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

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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