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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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