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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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