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"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
Miscellaneous
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
Truth & Lies
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
Miscellaneous
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."
Truth & Lies
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Miscellaneous
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
Happiness
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Truth & Lies
"Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."
Happiness
"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
Clever Jabs
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
Laughter
"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places."
Morality
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
Experience
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
Miscellaneous
"Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow."
Age
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Sleep
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Ideas
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
Friendship
"With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured."
Miscellaneous
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."
Miscellaneous
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Money
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
Youth
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