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

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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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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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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