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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy of dishonesty.
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
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All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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