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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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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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