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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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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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I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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