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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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

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

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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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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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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