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/ page 340 of 1205 /The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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