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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

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