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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Talking
"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
Morality
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Education
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Motivation & Goals
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
Miscellaneous
"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
Miscellaneous
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
Sex
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Virtue
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Miscellaneous
"When the human race has once acquired a supersitition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it."
Miscellaneous
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Age
"The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right."
Comedy
"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
Truth & Lies
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Clever Jabs
"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately."
Morality
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press."
Writing
"Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him."
Quotations
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
Courage
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
History
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