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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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