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You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

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Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.

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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing t...more

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the pr...more

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Kill the women? No – nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you’re always as polite as pie to them; and by-a...more

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Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The averag...more

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That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t ...more

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You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

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If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you’ll see.

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You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but ever...more