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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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