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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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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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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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