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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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Hunger is the handmaid of genius

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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