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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

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