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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

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Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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