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- Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
- The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had…
- A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won…
- In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather…
- Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
- There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the…
- My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
- Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
- Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
- When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
- God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
- There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental…
- Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
- I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree…
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