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One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

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Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it

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Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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