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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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Dance like nobody's looking.

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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