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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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