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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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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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