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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.

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I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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