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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families...more

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Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all ...more

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Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the...more

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

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The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in...more

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.