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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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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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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

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