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

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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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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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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

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