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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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