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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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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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When angry, count to a hundred.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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