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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

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