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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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