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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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