"What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
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"It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right."
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"The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]"
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"Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em."
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"If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble."
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"Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe."
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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
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"Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it."
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"Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else."
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"The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down."
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"How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?"
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"They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing."
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"Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time."
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"I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are."
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"Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world"
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"We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him."
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"The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards."
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"Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it."
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"A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one"
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"How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble."
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