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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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