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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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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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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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