I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
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Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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