"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."

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"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

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"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."

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