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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

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I could never hate anyone I knew.

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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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Some day I shall be President.

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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