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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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