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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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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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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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