"A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time,..."
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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is..."
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"As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and..."
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"As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we..."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand...."
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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as..."
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"Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to..."
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"Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been...."
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"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second..."
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"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us...."
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"It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a..."
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"Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves...."
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"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you do..."
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"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope...."
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"Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it...."
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"One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly..."
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"Remember the poor, it costs nothing...."
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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute...."
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"Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay...."
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"Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living..."
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his..."
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"The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store,..."
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"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease...."
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"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory...."
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"There is one thing about hens that looks like wisdom--they don't crackle..."
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them..."
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"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants,..."
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has...."
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