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A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.
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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
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Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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The difference between two men is usually a woman.
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The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
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Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
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The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.
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Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.
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It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
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Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.
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The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstanding; others, because they understand each other too well.
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Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.
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Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.
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If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.
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Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
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The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.
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The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.
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