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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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