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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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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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