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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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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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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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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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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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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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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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