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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

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