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"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."

"The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it."

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected."

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

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."

"I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else."

"It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."

"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."

"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

"If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."

"Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit."

"There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t."

"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

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

"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."

"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."

"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."

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