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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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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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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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

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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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