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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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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 had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

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