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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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We can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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