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"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
Knowledge
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
Money
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."
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Personal Development
"These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities."
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"The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess."
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"We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards."
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"You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one."
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Personal Development
"I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them."
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"Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards."
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"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
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"A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it."
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"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."
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