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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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

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It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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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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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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