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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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