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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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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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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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