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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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