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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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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 of them.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

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