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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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