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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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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 have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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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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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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

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