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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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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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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

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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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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

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