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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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