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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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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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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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