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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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