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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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