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It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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