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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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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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Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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