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"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."
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"I can't remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it."

"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."

"He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same."

"You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world."

"I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."

"Criminal' pompousness will not do, 'civil' pompousness is acceptable."
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"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick."

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."

"The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time."

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."

"In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping."

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."
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