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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

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