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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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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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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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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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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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