Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.
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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldn't find honest employment.
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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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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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We are all beggars, each in his own way.
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it .
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
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Experience comes from bad judgment.
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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race .
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
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When congress is in session no American is safe.
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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction .
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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
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