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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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