Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Subject:
Life   
Death   
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Subject:
Age   
Ignorance   
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
Subject:
Happiness   
Just   
Work: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Philosophical   
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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
Subject:
Ambition   
Greatness   
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Subject:
Duty   
Human Nature   
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Subject:
Happiness   
Depress   
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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
Subject:
Writing   
Time   
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Humor   
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Subject:
Education   
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Subject:
Humor   
Death   
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Subject:
History   
Prejudice   
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
Subject:
Decisions   
Patriotism   
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Subject:
Facts   
Congress   
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Subject:
Books   
Reading   
Work: Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Subject:
Happiness   
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I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Human Nature   
Compliment   
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Subject:
Humor   
Sarcasm   
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Subject:
Freedom   
Mankind   
Opinions   
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Subject:
Perseverance   
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