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In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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