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

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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The southerner talks music.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

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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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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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