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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

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Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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