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Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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The problem with education is school.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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