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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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