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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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