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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

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