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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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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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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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