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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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