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

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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A German joke is no laughing matter.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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