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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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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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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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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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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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