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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

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

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

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If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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