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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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