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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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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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