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Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.
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Men
Beats
Hard
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Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
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Prejudice
Twins
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There is a realm where the rainbow never fades
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Fades
Rainbow
Realms
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Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
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Men
Cigarette Smoke
Marijuana
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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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Truth
Assertion
Naked
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Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.
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Facts
Peculiar
People
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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
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Funny
Friendship
Friends
Humor
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A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
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Funny
Dental Work
Looks
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A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
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Deals
Pins
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One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
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Earthly Possessions
Possession
Self
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Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
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Smoking
Tobacco
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He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
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Composure
Firsts
Wit
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Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
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Editing
Punctuation
Writing
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A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
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Father
Political
Speech
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A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
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Funny
Men
Animal
Dog
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In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
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New York
Bats
Cities
Twilight
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Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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Debt Free
People
Use
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Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
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Courage
Cowardice
Liable
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Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
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Profound
Seems
Thinking
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Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
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Funny
Inspirational
Men
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
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Kindness
Treasured
Vain
Words Of Kindness
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If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
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Angel
Sleep
Waking
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Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
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Children
Has Beens
People
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A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
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Men
Good Man
Secret
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Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.
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Time
Night
Sleep
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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
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Men
People
Writing
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Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
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Fortresses
Habit
Proportion
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
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Kindness
Broken
Pearls
Witty
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Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
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Men
Giving
Light
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What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
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Loss
Names
Weight
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When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
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Intelligence
Men
Doe
Long
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We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
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Favors
Impossible
Tolerance
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Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!
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Time
Glasses
Heart
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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
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Men
Hair
Rude
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
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Mistake
People
Sincerity
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Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
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Joy
Possession
Satisfaction
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
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Life
Men
Half
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The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
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War
Air
Rivers
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Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
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Mistake
Order
Thinking
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Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.
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Time
Air
Echoes
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It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
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Lying
People
Telling The Truth
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