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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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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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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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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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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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

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