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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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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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