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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

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

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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