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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

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As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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