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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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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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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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