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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
[ Pessimism ]
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
[ Ideas ]
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
[ Ideas ]
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
[ Optimism ]
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
[ Blood ]
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
[ Difficulties ]
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
[ Fishing ]
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
[ Happiness ]
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
[ Honesty ]
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
[ Family ]
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
[ Success ]
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
[ Procrastination ]
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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
[ Prohibition ]
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
[ Punctuality ]
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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
[ Honesty ]
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
[ Success ]
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
[ Money ]
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
[ Work, Hard ]
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
[ Virtue ]
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