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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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