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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him 'Whose'
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The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
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