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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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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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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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