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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. 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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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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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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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

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