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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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