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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

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