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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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Labor in loneliness is irksome.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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Tough times teach trust.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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