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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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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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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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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

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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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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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