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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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