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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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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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