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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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