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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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