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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. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

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