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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean 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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You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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