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We have the best government that money can buy.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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