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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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If one is honest there is no need to remember.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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