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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

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

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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

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