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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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Humor is man's greatest blessing.

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