I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
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When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
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What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
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