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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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