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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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Travel is lethal to prejudice.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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