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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

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