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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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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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You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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