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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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