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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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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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A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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