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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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