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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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