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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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