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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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