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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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