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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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I am only human, although I regret it.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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

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