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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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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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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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

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