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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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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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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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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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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

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The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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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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Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

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Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

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