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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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