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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into ...more

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of t...more

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket ...more

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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

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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet...more

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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and uns...more

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Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding s...more

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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.