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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Modesty died when clothes were born.

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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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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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