"A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
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"Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well."
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"The churches must learn humility as well as teach it."
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"The best way to get your point across is to entertain."
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"Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders."
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"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
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"My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."
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"Most people go to their grave with their music inside them."
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"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
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"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
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"Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English."
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"We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way."
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"I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going."
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"In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."
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"It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation."
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"Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh."
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"Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman."
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"A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better."
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"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people."
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