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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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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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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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