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

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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