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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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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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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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In his private heart no man much respects himself.

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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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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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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

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And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out where you went in. For a millio...more