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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

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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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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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I am not an American. I am the American.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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