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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Topic: Rest
Source: None
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Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Topic: Rights
Source: None
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Topic: Sarcasm
Source: None
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Topic: Sleep
Source: None
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Topic: Smile
Source: None
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Topic: Speech
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Speech
Source: None
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Topic: Speech
Source: None
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Topic: Sports
Source: None
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Topic: Sports:Golf
Source: None
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Topic: Success
Source: None
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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Topic: Superstition
Source: None
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Topic: Tax
Source: None
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
Topic: Temptation
Source: None
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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.
Topic: Training
Source: None
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Topic: Undertakers
Source: None
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I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
Topic: Vices
Source: None
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Topic: Vulgarity
Source: None
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.
Topic: War
Source: None
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If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
Topic: Weather
Source: None
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A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
Topic: Winning
Source: None
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Topic: Words
Source: None
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Topic: Work
Source: None
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We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
Topic: Wrong
Source: None
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Topic: ~curiosity
Source: None
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