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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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