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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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