Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick.' It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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