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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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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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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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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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