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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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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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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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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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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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