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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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

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