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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.

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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

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Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

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