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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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Children and fools always speak the truth

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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

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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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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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