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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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We are all ignorant; just about different things.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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