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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

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