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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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