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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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