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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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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 would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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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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