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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

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