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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
Source: Speech 1854 -
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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