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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Matter Taking Weak Strong
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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Treat Dogs Works Actions
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Never Give up Place Time
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Been said Beautiful Young girls Wake up
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With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Bust Corporal Ever General
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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Strange Brings Past things Back
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Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Confusing First First Thing Girl
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Scenes Blood Cruelty Heart
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I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

Arms Best Best Part Card
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers Instinctive philosophers
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Really great Truly noble Everyday life
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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in.

Your hurry Now Time Ever
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

Against Countries Deep Deep Down
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

So subtle Atmosphere Opinion Words
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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Alternative Choices Crisis Fight
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Talk Abuses Essence
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Arm Around Call Gentle
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I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Braver Have Lost all Nothing
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Humor Like Starts Then
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Freshness Solemnity Insensate man
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The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

Chance Good Guy Miss
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

One Sort Lives Throwing stones
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Women are the real architects of society.
Women Real architects Society
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Manner Diamond Truth See it
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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Ahead Comedy Get Going
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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Big Desk Happiness Small
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike.
All ranks Life Human heart Beautiful things
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Insecure Joke Line More
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And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.

Among us Generous spirit Estimate honour Dollar
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

Love Beautiful Sad
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We never know how we love til we try to unlove!

Never know Love Try
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President Ford used humor a great deal.

Deal Ford Great Great Deal
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But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.

Life Kingdom Trust Matter
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise

Resolve Grace Silence Fault findings
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Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

Loved you Better Know yourself
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Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said,
When Met Little woman Started
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Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be

An age God sends Friend Loves us
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The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest.
Water River Calmest Deepest
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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All men are free and equal, in the grave,

All men Free In grave
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Glorious Nation Man Freedom
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There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

Political folks Round Plain right
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

The power Fictitious writing Seriously
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Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

Government derive Power Consent
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I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so.

Believe Sneaking dog Die alone Old mother
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Against Childhood Crime Religion
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Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Everything Money Averted face Worth
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