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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 ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

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

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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