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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Originality
Barbara Tuchman

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I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Money
Sophie Tucker

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A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Rumors
John Tudor

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Books - Reading
Martin Tupper

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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Memory
Martin Tupper

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Nature
Ivan Turgenev

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It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
Home
Turkish Proverb

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Humankind
Turkish Proverb

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Action
Ted Turner

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Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
Conformity
Thomas Tusser

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Courage
Star Trek TV series

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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Lies and Lying
Mark Twain

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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Aid and Assistance
Mark Twain

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
Lies and Lying
Mark Twain

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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
Invention and Inventor
Mark Twain

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Success
Mark Twain

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
World
Mark Twain

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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Certainty
Mark Twain

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Forgiveness
Mark Twain

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Nations
Mark Twain

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Facts
Mark Twain

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
Popularity
Mark Twain

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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Heaven
Mark Twain

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Compliments
Mark Twain

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Work
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun