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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: April 21st, 1818

Died: October 14th, 1885

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