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| The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. | | War and Peace | | |
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| The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laugther. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. | | Uncategorized | | |
