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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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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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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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