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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays. What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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