A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Subject:
Desires   
Mankind   
Source: Following the Equator
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Subject:
Humor   
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
Subject:
Humor   
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Subject:
Facts   
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Subject:
Truth   
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Subject:
Facts   
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Subject:
Nature   
Mankind   
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Subject:
Food   
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Subject:
Congress   
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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Subject:
Food   
Source:
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Subject:
Congress   
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Subject:
Humor   
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Subject:
Emotions   
Human Nature   
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Subject:
Death   
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Subject:
Courage   
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Subject:
Desires   
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Subject:
Education   
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Subject:
Conversation   
Human Nature   
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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."
Subject:
Humor   
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Subject:
Mankind   
Human Nature   
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