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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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