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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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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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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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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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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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