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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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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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