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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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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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To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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