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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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