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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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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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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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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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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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Talent without work is useless, thank God

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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