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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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