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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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