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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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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 begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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