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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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