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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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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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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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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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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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