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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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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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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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It is better to support schools than jails.

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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