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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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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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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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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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