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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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