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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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