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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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