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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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