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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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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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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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