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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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