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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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