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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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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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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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