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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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