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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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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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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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