"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so."
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"We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us."
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"Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books."
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"The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one."
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"God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion."
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"Growth is often a painful process."
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"Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before."
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"Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe."
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"Piety is the tinfoil of pretense."
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"Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune."
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"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."
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"The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem."
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"Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself."
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"The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved."
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"Luck is tenacity of purpose."
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"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends."
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"Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one."
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"Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber."
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"No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right."
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"When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket."
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