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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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