No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God
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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style
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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Mark Twain
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