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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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