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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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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

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Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.

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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 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 ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so.

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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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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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Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

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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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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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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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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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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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After enlightenment, the laundry.

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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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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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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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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

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