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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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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss abou...more

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In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he mus...more

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

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One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

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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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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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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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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

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.