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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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

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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

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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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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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