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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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