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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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One must travel, to learn.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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