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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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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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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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