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"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
Nature

"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more."

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
Music

"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count."

"Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?"

"It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you."

"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live."

"We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to."

"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."

"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."

"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

"We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate."

"About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork."

"An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed."

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