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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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