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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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

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One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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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've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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