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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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