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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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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. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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