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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

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