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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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Talent without work is useless, thank God

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

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Life is short, break the rules.

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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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