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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Author object (24)

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection. - Author object (24)

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Author object (24)

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven. - Author object (24)

If books are not good company, where shall I find it? - Author object (24)

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. - Author object (24)

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. - Author object (24)

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt - Author object (24)

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. - Author object (24)

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Author object (24)

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse. - Author object (24)

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me. - Author object (24)

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. - Author object (24)

Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die. - Author object (24)

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect. - Author object (24)

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Author object (24)

It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true. - Author object (24)

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty. - Author object (24)

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened - Author object (24)

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE - Author object (24)