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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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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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A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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