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All Quotes Collection
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
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"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
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"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
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"Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge."
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"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
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"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
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"Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to."
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."
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"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
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"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
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"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
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"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."
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"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
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"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
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"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
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"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
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"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."
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"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash."
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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
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"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."
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