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Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic...  
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is th...  
Every decision you make is a mistake.  
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly p...  
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, l...  
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wi...  
It takes a long time to understand nothing.  
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.  
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts...  
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obviou...  
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and thr...  
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by ...  
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfe...  
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merch...  
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who ...  
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers,...  
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, i...  
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent...  
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to r...  
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too ...