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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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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 less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

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