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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is wort...

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in ...

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After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by...

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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk...

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Work

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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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The best way to cheer yourself is by cheering someone else up.

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Love: The irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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Be careful of reading health books; you may die of a misprint.

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I never let my schooling get in the way of my education

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A badly told lie is almost as bad as telling the truth.

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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

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There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Success

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

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