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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

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