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I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man....more

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I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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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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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now ...more

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Never let your education interfere with your learning.

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But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; dea...more

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.