Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape That's retirement.
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.
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Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
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I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
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It may be that those who do most, dream most.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it
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