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Never mistake motion for progress.

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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