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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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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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Hunger is the handmaid of genius

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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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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 there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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All human rules are more or less idiotic.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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