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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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Geological time is not money.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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