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Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

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During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

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He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualif...more

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France...more

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Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

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An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the...more