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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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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

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The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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