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"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
Education
"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble."
Morality
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it."
Virtue
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
Age
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
Anger
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
Miscellaneous
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Clever Jabs
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
Religion
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
Honor
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Miscellaneous
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Reading
"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."
Fear
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
Success
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Success
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Family
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Youth
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
Courage
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Morality
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
Reading
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Comedy
"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 rather not."
Health
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