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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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All human rules are more or less idiotic.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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