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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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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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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

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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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