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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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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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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

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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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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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