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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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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.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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