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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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