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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

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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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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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