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The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter. – Mark Twain

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The truest sayings are paradoxical. – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

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Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. – Attributed to Richard Kemph

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Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after. – Henry Smith

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Always verify quotations! – Martin Joseph Routh, quoted in Catholic World: A Monthly Magazine of General Lit

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken

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Canadians are very well behaved, they dont throw their food. – Calvin Trillin

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