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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

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