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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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
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