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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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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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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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