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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to ru...  
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the e...  
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.   Friendship
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.  
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.  
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with a...  
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is t...  
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.  
Art is not a thing; it is a way.   Art
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day w...  
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.   Death
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.  
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so ...  
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to sepa...  
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom c...  
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.  
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped...  
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved ...  
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand y...  
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to hav...  
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is ...  
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still ...  
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.  
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a long...  
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.  
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day wh...  
Life is just one damned thing after another.  
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the c...  
Live truth instead of professing it.  
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on th...  
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not ...  
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospectiv...   Marriage
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least on...  
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at othe...  
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do t...  
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.  
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something th...  
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.  
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.  
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure...   Success
Responsibility is the price of freedom.  
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than as...  
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.  
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, priva...  
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on...  
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today  
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.  
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.   Friendship
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that ...  
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea a...  
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy tha...   Forgiveness
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know ...  
The love we give away is the only love we keep.  
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and th...  
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without h...  
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these...  
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but tha...  
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts...   Art
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.  
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't ...  
There is no failure except in no longer trying.  
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, some...  
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for b...  
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.  
We are punished by our sins, not for them.   Religion
We work to become, not to acquire.  
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of...