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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

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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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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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