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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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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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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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