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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better it is just turning around as usual. — Finley Peter Dunne
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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The last man that makes a joke owns it.
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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Trust everybody, but always cut the cards.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
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Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
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A man's idee in a card game is war
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