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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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