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He talked with more claret than clarity.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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What happens when the future has come and gone?

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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