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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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