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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
E. W. Howe / Novelist
Funny
Adam
Adam And Eve
Boast
Doe
Married
Morality
Records
Ancestors
Eve
Record
None
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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Admire
Book
Loan
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Food
War
Enough
Hero
Pie
Boy
Around
Sees
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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
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Bragging
Cutting
People
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I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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Men
America
Talking
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We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
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Life
Religion
Truth
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Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
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Parenting
Biscuits
Children
Hands
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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
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Marriage
Men
Money
Earning It
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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
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Women
Kissing
Sweet
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Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.
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Girl
Women
Hate
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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Funny
Parenting
Mom
Children
Filled
Insane
Mother
Time Mom Home
Asylum
Time Home Mom
Mothers
Schools
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Friendship
Friends
Patience
Relationship
Appropriate
Asking
Trouble
True Friend
Anything
Annoy
Friend
Him
Something
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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Appreciation
Life
Smile
Failure
Gratitude
Humiliation
Life Work Great
Greatest
Expect
Fail
Work Hard
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If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.
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Running
Men
Appreciate
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A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?
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Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
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Men
Children
Talking
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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Faith
Expression
Giving
Investigation
Literature
Breath
Opposed
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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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Men
Average
Long
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
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Affair
Confused
Enough
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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Education
Algebra
Convince
Difficult
Geometry
Teaching
Teenage
Student
Encounter
Problems
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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
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Men
Crowds
Deals
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Friendship
Friends
Cold
May
Selfishness
Seem
Treat
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How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.
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Age
Dog
Wish
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One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
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Age
Growing
Historical
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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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Men
Advice
People
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
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Honesty
Mistake
Powerful
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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Men
Money
Care
Imagine
Plenty
Take Care
Simply
Sign
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
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Government
Organization
People
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Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
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Art
Book
Moving
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We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
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Freedom
Book
Cradle
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I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
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Half
Trying
World
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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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Business
Philosophy
Years
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I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.
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Belief
Benefits
Duty
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A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
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Religion
Men
Doe
Wicked
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The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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Accomplishment
Night
Things In Life
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