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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
When in doubt, do it.
War? War is an organized bore.
Systems die; instincts remain.
To know is not less than to feel.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
Carve every word before you let it fall.
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
A person of genius should marry a person of character.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
