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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."

"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."

"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."

"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
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