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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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Geological time is not money.

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