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"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."	Anti-God, Books
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."	Health
"The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."	America
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."	Wisdom
"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."	Writing
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."	Success, Ignorance
"The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all."	Wisdom
"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."	Food
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."	Miscellaneous
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."	Quotations
"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad."	Fear
"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."	Love, Confidence
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."	Time
"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so."	Comedy, Honesty
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it."	Comedy, Honesty
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."	Love, Conformity
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."	God, Talent
"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."	Economics, Change
"We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened."	Religion
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."	Knowledge
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