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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.
Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.