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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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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 - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

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Don't dream your life, but live your dream

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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