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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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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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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

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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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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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