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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

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