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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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We can't reach old age by another man's road.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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