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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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The problem with education is school.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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