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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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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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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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