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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life.

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Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

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