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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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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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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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