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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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Be good and you will be lonely.
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
[ Virtue ]
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
[ Adversity ]
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
[ Courage ]
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
[ Grammar ]
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
[ Denial ]
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
[ Familiarity ]
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Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
[ Forgiveness ]
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
[ Futility ]
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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
[ Popularity ]
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
[ Money ]
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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
[ Honesty ]
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
[ Trials ]
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
[ Evolution ]
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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