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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
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A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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