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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It t

Understand Man Exciting Challenge
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

Advice Logical Consistent Love
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Resolve Not Seem Best
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

Gift Perfect Nobody Stranger
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Success Today Friend Heart
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I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

Beautiful Divorce Escrow Compulsive
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Fight Mother Save Fortune
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For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Blow Pay Done Suffer
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A girl must marry for love - and keep on marrying until she finds it.

Girl Marry Love Find
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

Wrong Woman Advance Encourage
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Come Wait Left Hustle
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Easy Keep Spouse Happy
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Time Fear Remain Guardian
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Fine Future Small Piece
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Night Conceal Think Behold
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Human Nature Change Future
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A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.

Queen Beauty Penury Grace
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Best Way Predict Future
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Child Health Soul Dear
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Will What Arrest Decree
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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
Walk Crime Death Great
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Claim Confess Have Plain
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Oath Make Believe Man
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Aid Save Mature Severe
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Life Middle Neither Despot
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Respect Veil Frankly Mind
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Platform Best Bargain Have
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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Flesh Man Will Fire
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

World Slave Freedom Deserve
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Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
Mother Success Wife Security
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Freedom Preserve Save Earth
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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

Bribe Pass Under Temple
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You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Think Wrong Between While
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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

Victory Complete Proclaim God
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Leave Lamp Burn Equal
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No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man Good Enough Sheet
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Love Help Who Him
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the sky and say there is no God.

Might Possible Could Look
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It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Seem Strange Dare Judge
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Ability Man Exist Have
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for h

Toward Charity Battle Cherish
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the w

Art Creation World Conduct
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; My greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Always Concern Right Side
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

Regard Book Best Gift
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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Party Claim Wrong Effect
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Poor Who Man Mother
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Faith End Duty Right
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