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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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All kings is mostly rapscallions.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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