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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

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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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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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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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