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" I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. "
Wilson Mizner
Hate
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" The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. "
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" The first hundred years are the hardest. "
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" Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. "
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" All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. "
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" You sparkle with larceny. "
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" I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own. "
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" Failure has gone to his head. "
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" Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. "
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" To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. "
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" The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. "
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Best
" Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. "
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" I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' "
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" In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. "
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" A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. "
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People
Ambition
" Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. "
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Desire
Small
Looking
" It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. "
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Art
Found
Life
" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "
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Advice
" If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. "
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Many
You
Steal
" A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. "
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" Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. "
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First
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" I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. "
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Judge
He
Laughs
" I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. "
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Hollywood
Think
Heroes
" Most hard-boiled people are half-baked. "
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People
Most
Half-Baked
" Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. "
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Welcome
Tried
Only
" There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. "
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Skeleton
Something
" A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. "
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Something
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" The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. "
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