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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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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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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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