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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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