Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

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Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

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He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.

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The man who listens to Reason is lost; reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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