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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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