 You can`t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
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For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay
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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man`s
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It is wiser to find out than to suppose
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man`s, I mean.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
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Be good and you will be lonesome
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it
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Don`t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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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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The history of our race, and each individual`s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
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A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
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Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it`s tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Humor is mankind`s greatest blessing.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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History doesn`t repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right
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One mustn`t criticize other people on grounds where he can`t stand perpendicular himself
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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Hunger is the handmaid of genius
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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Denial ain`t just a river in Egypt.
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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Prophecy: Two bull`s eyes out of a possible million
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Fortune knocks at every man`s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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How empty is theory in the presence of fact
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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I`m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can`t be any worse.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don`t mind, it doesn`t matter.
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We can secure other people`s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that
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If you tell the truth you don`t have to remember anything.
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It`s easy to quit smoking. I`ve done it hundreds of times.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
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Do something everyday that you don`t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy`s life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
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By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can`t be any worse.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he`d learned in seven years.
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When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don`t mind, it doesn`t matter.
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
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I deal with temptation by yielding to it
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don`t want, drink what you don`t like, and do what you`d rather not.
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I didn`t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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Be good and you will be lonely
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense
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True irreverence is disrespect for another man`s god
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I didn`t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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Don`t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first
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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won`t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
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It`s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Don`t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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I didn`t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
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Do something every day that you don`t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won`t.
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven`t been done before.
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn`t.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Don`t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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I don`t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man`s I mean.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
(quotationspage.com)
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
(quotationspage.com)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
(quotationspage.com)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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