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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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