A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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