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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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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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The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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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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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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