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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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