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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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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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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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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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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

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