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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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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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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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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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