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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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