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• Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
• The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people…
• When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
• No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
• American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
• It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
• People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
• The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

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