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- "Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough ..."
- "Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that ..."
- "Every decision you make is a mistake. "
- "Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before ..."
- "I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. "
- "It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, ..."
- "It takes a long time to understand nothing. "
- "Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. "
- "Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts ..."
- "No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country ..."
- "One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three ..."
- "Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the ..."
- "So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that ..."
- "The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We ..."
- "There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly ..."
- "Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they ..."
- "We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the ..."
- "We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, ..."
- "We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall ..."
- "We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to ..."
