No. 2258
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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