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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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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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Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

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