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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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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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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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Travel is lethal to prejudice.

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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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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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