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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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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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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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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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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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