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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.