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I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now ...more

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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; dea...more

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

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The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in...more

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.