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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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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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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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