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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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