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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. 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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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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