Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all . . .
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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
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Truth is such a precious article let us all economize in its use.
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Pilgrim's Progress, about a man who left his family, it didn't say why. The statements was interesting, but tough.
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