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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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