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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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