My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Books   
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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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Mankind   
Work: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Fear   
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In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
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Humor   
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Subject:
Art   
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Humility   
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Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Advice   
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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Sarcasm   
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
Subject:
Pets   
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Pets   
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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Compliment   
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Subject:
Freedom   
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Subject:
Laughter   
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When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Subject:
Praise   
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
Subject:
Humor   
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Subject:
English   
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Subject:
Sleep   
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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
Subject:
Books   
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Habits   
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Subject:
Learning   
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