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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Author object (24)

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. - Author object (24)

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? - Author object (24)

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Author object (24)

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. - Author object (24)

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. - Author object (24)

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. - Author object (24)

Be good and you will be lonesome. - Author object (24)

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. - Author object (24)

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Author object (24)

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Author object (24)

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. - Author object (24)

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Author object (24)

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. - Author object (24)

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. - Author object (24)

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality - Author object (24)

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. - Author object (24)

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head. - Author object (24)

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. - Author object (24)

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. - Author object (24)