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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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All human rules are more or less idiotic.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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

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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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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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Man - a figment of God's imagination.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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