The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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