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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

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