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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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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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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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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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