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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

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