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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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