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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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We are all ignorant; just about different things.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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