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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

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