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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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