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"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
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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."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
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"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Happiness
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
Attitude
"He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'."
Health
"I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself."
Mortality
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
Wisdom
"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."
Humor
"From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself."
Spiritual
"The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people."
Philosophy
"I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it."
Health
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
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