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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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I am not an American. I am the American.

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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

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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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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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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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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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