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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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