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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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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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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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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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