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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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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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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

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