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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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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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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

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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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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

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