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

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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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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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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

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I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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