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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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