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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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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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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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