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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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