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- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
- Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a…
- Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
- That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
- Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures,…
- in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
- when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort…
- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage…
- Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry…
- We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
- Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
- I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
- There is no such thing as an ordinary life.
- Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing…
- That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as…
- Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
- A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a…
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
- Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
- I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
- Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit…
- For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
- We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped…
- We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
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