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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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