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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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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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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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