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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
[ Respectability ]
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
[ Honor ]
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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!
[ Example ]
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
[ Example ]
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We are all alike, on the inside.
[ Equality ]
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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
[ Media ]
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Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
[ Complaining ]
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I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
[ Complaining ]
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That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
[ Military ]
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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
[ Taxes ]
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
[ Parents ]
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
[ Doctors ]
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
[ Fiction ]
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
[ Heaven ]
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
[ Ignorance ]
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
[ Ignorance ]
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
[ Christianity ]
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
[ Christianity ]
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
[ Speech ]
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