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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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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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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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