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It is a mistake that there is ...

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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Man is the only animal that bl...

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

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I have a prodigious quantity o...

I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Temperate temperance is best; ...

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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Modesty antedates clothes and ...

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

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We consider that any man who c...

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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It is the difference of opinio...

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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There is no sadder sight than ...

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

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What a good thing Adam had--wh...

What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a ...

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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I can live for two months on a...

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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Prosperity is the surest breed...

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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There are many scapegoats for ...

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

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It is by the goodness of God t...

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 prudence never to practice either.

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Nothing so needs reforming as ...

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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The church is always trying to...

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, ...

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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I don't know of a single forei...

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Most people are bothered by th...

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting...

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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