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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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There is only one good sex. The female one.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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