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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

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It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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