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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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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

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

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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