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A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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