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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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