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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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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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He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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