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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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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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