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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Labor in loneliness is irksome.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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