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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.
Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.
Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.
Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.
Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.
Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.
Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.
A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.
Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?