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What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

– Josh Billings

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to.

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

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A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

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After enlightenment, the laundry.

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

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Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

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It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so.

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Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.

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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

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My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

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One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.

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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.

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The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

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The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.

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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

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