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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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