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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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