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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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Talent without work is useless, thank God

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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