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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.