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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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There is only one good sex. The female one.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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