- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
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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 man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
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- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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- After enlightenment, the laundry.
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- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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- Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.
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- Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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- Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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- Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to.
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- Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
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- Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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- Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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- Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
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- I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
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- I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
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- It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so.
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- It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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- It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
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- It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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- Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.
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- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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- Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
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- Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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- Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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- My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
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- No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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- One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
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- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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- Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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- Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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- The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
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- The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
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- The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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- There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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- We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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- What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
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- When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
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