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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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

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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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