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Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

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Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

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"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

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Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

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Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

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