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A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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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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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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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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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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