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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

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Have the courage to act instead of react.

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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1894

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