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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

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