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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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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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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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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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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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