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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

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

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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Talent without work is useless, thank God

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Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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