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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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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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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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