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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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