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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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