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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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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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All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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