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I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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Don't dream your life, but live your dream

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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