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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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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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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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