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You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

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Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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