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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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I gloat! Hear me gloat!

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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

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The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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