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

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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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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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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