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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

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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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