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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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