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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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