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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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