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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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