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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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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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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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