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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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The problem with education is school.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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