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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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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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Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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