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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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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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Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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