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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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