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| Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right | | Popularity | |
| Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold | | Uncategorized | |
| Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. | | Uncategorized | |
| Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. | | Uncategorized | |
| Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. | | Uncategorized | |
| Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word | | Uncategorized | |
| Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new | | Experience | |
| Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please | | Speech | |
| Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion | | Fame | |
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| Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. | | Familiarity | |
| Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. | | Uncategorized | |
| Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. | | Example | |
| Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. | | Example | |
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| Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can | | Uncategorized | |
| For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness | | Uncategorized | |
| For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. | | Self-interest | |
| For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night and slaverly which would last till Christ comes again--which I hope he will n | | Uncategorized | |
