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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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