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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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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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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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