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• What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
• When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
• Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as…
• He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
• It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the…
• The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
• She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
• The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar...
• I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take…
• The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
• In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure…
• Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

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