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

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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Words
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.
Commitment
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I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Principles
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Education
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Exercise
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I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
Vice
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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
Taxes and Taxation
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Indecision
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Truth
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Sarcasm
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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Fools and Foolishness
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Ignorance
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Humankind
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If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
Pilgrims
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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Memory
Mark Twain

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Compliments
Mark Twain

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If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
Weather
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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Speakers and Speaking
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Truth
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In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Respectability
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Politicians and Politics
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
Idiots
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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Work
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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
Religion
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun